The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... society , gradually bringing men nearer together , and , like the combined force of wine and oil , giving every man a glad heart and a shining countenance . Genuine and innocent . wit like this , is surely the flavour of the mind ! Man ...
... society , gradually bringing men nearer together , and , like the combined force of wine and oil , giving every man a glad heart and a shining countenance . Genuine and innocent . wit like this , is surely the flavour of the mind ! Man ...
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... society , and which is worst of all , continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the life of man , solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short . - Hobbes . MECHANICAL DUTY . Schiller used to say , that he found the great ...
... society , and which is worst of all , continual fear and danger of violent death ; and the life of man , solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short . - Hobbes . MECHANICAL DUTY . Schiller used to say , that he found the great ...
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... society , who exclaim that they are " so delighted , " or " so shocked , " and speak of things being pleasing or hateful " to a degree ; " he would bear down upon them without mercy , and roar out , " To what degree ? Your word means ...
... society , who exclaim that they are " so delighted , " or " so shocked , " and speak of things being pleasing or hateful " to a degree ; " he would bear down upon them without mercy , and roar out , " To what degree ? Your word means ...
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... circumstances of society , or changed those so as to better its condition ; has been one of the lights of the world , or only reflected the borrowed rays of former luminaries ; and sat in the same 54 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK .
... circumstances of society , or changed those so as to better its condition ; has been one of the lights of the world , or only reflected the borrowed rays of former luminaries ; and sat in the same 54 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK .
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... society better than could be done by the most elaborate dis- sertation . The Doctor . A POPULAR FALLACY . When the world has once got hold of a lie , it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world . You beat it about the ...
... society better than could be done by the most elaborate dis- sertation . The Doctor . A POPULAR FALLACY . When the world has once got hold of a lie , it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world . You beat it about the ...
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Página 34 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 40 - ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog...
Página 91 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Página 136 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Página 184 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Página 30 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake : the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter ! All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Página 80 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 31 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Página 92 - I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right honourable house, — as keeper of the great seal, — as guardian of his majesty's conscience,' — as Lord High Chancellor of England, — nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Página 28 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.